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M. MACDONALD AuToeRAPaIc REGISTER Fiied Jan. s.' 1923 V showmg the rollers in elevation, and taken v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MUBDOCK MACDONALD, O'F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

Application tiled January 5, 1928. Serial No. 810,742.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MUnDooK MACDONALD,

a citizen of the United States, resident of Cleveland, county'of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented new ancLuseful Improvements in Autographic Registers, of which the following is a specification, the principle'of the invention being herein eX- plained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish itfrom other inventions.

My invention relates to auto-graphic registers, its object being to provide a register simple in construction, economical of manufacture and which will efiiciently perform its functions.` l

Said invention consists of fmeans herein-y after fully described and particularly .set forth in the claims.l

More particularly, the object or' my invention is toprovide means whereby one of a multiplicity of superposed strips wound upon'a single roller, may be segregated from the other strips for the'purpose 'of separate f nling or retention.

rllhis object I attain by providing a second-` ary roller upon which this segregated strip is wound after it has `been unwound from the main roller, such secondary roller being mounted and cooperating with the main roller in the manner hereinafter fully disclosed.

The annexed drawing and' the following description set forth in detail certain means embodying my invention, the disclosed means, however, constituting but one of various ways in which the principle of -my in vention maybe applied.

In said annexed drawing:

Fig. 1 represents a planof a register embodying my invention, showing the top or cover member broken away.

Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal vert-ical i section' of said device.`

Fig. 3 represents a plan of the main roller detached from the frame and showing the multiplicity of strips'wound thereon.

Fi 4 represents a transverse section,

upon the'p-laneindicatedby line IV-IV in Fig. 2.

The illustrated embodiment of my invention comprises a suitable frame consisting of two side members 1-1, Figs. 1 and 4, connected transverselyby suitable tie-rods 2, 2,

and 2. These side members are each formed with two parallel slots 3 (vertical as shown) open at the upper end, Fig. 2.

The lower ends of these slots form bearings for the end portions of a spindle 4 of the main roller 5. The opposite sides of this roller are provided with cylindrical bosses 6 6 upon each of which is iXedly secured a driving wheel 7, such wheels being of equal diameter. i v

Also seated in said slots 31-3 are the end port-ions of a spindle 8 of a secondary roller 9, Fig. 4, and on these end portions and adjacent to the opposite sides of said roller 9 are secured two pinions 10g-10. These pinions rest upon the driving wheel 7 frictionally engage the periphery thereof, and said wheels and pinions are made of material suitable for roviding such frictional engagement as will cause the roller 9 to rotate when the wheels 7 are rotated. To

this end the wheels 7-7 may be' made of wardly andforwardly, as shownin Fig. 2,

is supported by the side members 1--1 transversely and in front of the main roller '5. The lower ortion of this platen is provided with a knifi; 14 by means of which the forms of thestri may1 be severed as is usual.

A suitablle movable or hinged cover 15-is plvided as will be understood.

As shown in Fig... 2, the tie-rod 2 is lmounted between the inner end-of the platen 13 and the roller 5 and the tie-rod 2 is mounted at the front ofthe frame and below the front end of the platen.' Rollers 16 and 17 aremounted respectively upon these two tie-rods.

The roller 5 is preferably made in two sections divided as at 18, Fig. 4, one wheel 7 `being hence attached to each section.`

A suitable carbon sheet receptacle 19 is rovided'from which carbon sheets 20 may e fed transversely across the platen as is customary and aswill be readily understood by those skilled in`r the art. y

A multiplicity of strips of paper, the upper one,of which is usually provided with a printed form, are wound 1n superposed relation upon a cardboard tube 21, Fig. 4,

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wardly around the roller 17, around the roll of strips on the-.roller 5 and up to the roller 9, its end being'inserted in the slot 22.

As the sheets are pulled over the platen by hand, as is customary in thistype of registersthe roller 5 is rotated, which action eects the rotation of the wheels 7 The rotation of these wheels effects the rotation of the pinions 10 and hence of the roller 9, the direction of rotation being indicated by the arrows in Fig. 2. Such rotation of the roller 9, therefore, will cause the said strip 23 to be wound thereupon. Sections of the other and superposed strips are torn oil as required by means of the knife 14.

It will, therefore, be seen that by means of the above described device a duplicate record of all transactions which are recorded o'n the superposed strips is retained and rolled up upon the roller 9.

When the strips are exhausted from the roller 5, the cover 15, which may be hinged as at 24, Fig. 2, may be lifted backV as in-r dicated in dotted lines, the roller 9 removed upwardly out of the slots 3 and the roller 5 then alsov removed from these slots. ,The two sectionsaof the said, roller 5 may be then pulled out laterally from the tube 21 and inserted inda `new tube upon which a fresh supply of strips has been wound. The

4bination of a frame having Lemie? parts may then be replaced'by reversing the above described order of procedure.

By providing the thumb pieces 11 and 12, it will be seen that the rollers 5 and 9 may be rotated in either direction for thepurpose of correction.

What I claim is.'

l. In an autographic register, the combination ofa sultable frame; a main feed roller mounted upon said frame; two driving wheels co-axial with and fixed to said roller and upon opposite sides thereof, a storage roller; and two pinions co-axial with the latter,xed thereto upon opposite sides thereof and resting upon the said driving wheels respectively.

2. In an autographic register, the comtwo oppositely disposed open-ended parallel slots; a main feed roller having the'opposite end-portions of its spindle journaled inthe bottom of said slots respectivelyftwo drivin wheels fixed to said roller and at opposite sides thereof respectively; -`and a storage roller having the endportions of its spindle in said slots lrespectively and provided with t'wo pinions fixed thereto and engaging said wheels respectively.

3. In an autographic register, the combination of a frame having two oppositely disposed open-ended parallel slots; a main feed roller having the opposite end-portions of its spindle journaled in the bottom of said slots4 respectively; two friction driving wheels fixed to said roller and at opposite sides thereof respectively; and a storage roller having the'end-portions o`f its spindle in said slots respectively and rovided with two pinions fixed thereto an resting upon said two wheels respectively. 192Sgigned by me this 21st day of December,

MURDOCK MACDONALD. 

